Great quality video and some actual analysis and opinion - very welcome!

I'm betting Sunday is his last start in AA and he'll be up to Syracuse for their home stand starting May 6th. He'll get 4 starts (3 at home) and join the Nats on their road trip w/ his first start in San Diego May 28th.

Mitch Williams(mlb network) was on 680thefan here in Atl. this am and in his opinion the Nats should bring up SS right now his contention is that SS can't learn anything that he doesn't already know and that everyone he is facing or will face(AAA)will be overmatched, so let him pitch in the bigs,for what it's worth i tend to agree this kid no doubt is a twenty game winner waiting to happen if they let him pitch,(7 ing.min.!) that's right none of that five inning bull let the kid throw.Strasburg will be fine if he is not treated like a tenderfoot, injuries occur when a pitcher for whatever reason is treated like a twelve year old,obviously you don't allow him to throw his arm out but this kid's got God given talent so please, for the love of Walter Johnson let him use it.

dargramps: I believe that conventional wisdom is that SS is ready from a pitching standpoint. If that was the sole consideration, he'd probably would have made the trip to DC out of spring training.
From a business standpoint, he ain't coming up here one second before the team has delayed his super two status.

It's got to be a huge positive that Strasburg will be joining a team that is functioning well (that is, not in utter free fall like last season) so he doesn't have to be the savior. Sure, he's Jesus--but that doesn't mean he should have to shoulder those kinds of expectations.

"Mitch Williams(mlb network) was on 680thefan here in Atl. this am and in his opinion the Nats should bring up SS right now his contention is that SS can't learn anything that he doesn't already know and that everyone he is facing or will face(AAA)will be overmatched, so let him pitch in the bigs"

Mr. Williams would be well advised to use Wikipedia to read about the "Super Two" rule, which would apply to Mr. Strasburg should he come up right now.

Great video, but no mention of him driving in the only run of the game! The kid can do it all! That siad, the Nationals are right to wait until June so that they can have him an extra year and save a lot of money that can be used for other players later on!

And as a fan, I don't want him up here one second before he has delayed super 2. I could watch him for half a dozen starts this May, or I can watch him for a whole extra year later. I will take the whole year. I fear that these owners will not spend to get a big market team, ever, and that he will head north at the end of his club control years. Maybe I will be pleasantly surprised, though. I certainly have been pleasantly surprised this year.

I certainly hope he starts here, not on the road! Why should we sell out somebody else's stadium? My first tickets in June are the 8th, though, so I expect I will be buying extras for the day he starts. And will I buy extras? Did the cavemen invent fire? Am I tired of that commercial?

Actually, San Diego would be a great place for him to start. Big park, weak opposing offense, and San Diego IS a "home" game for the guy from SDSU. A lower-pressure atmosphere might be a good idea. However, I don't like what that might do to the Nats' bullpen if he's limited to five innings.

The Nats have already gained Strasburg for an extra year. Super Two status is just about arbitration money, not free agency. So if they brought up Strasburg tomorrow (or Sunday.. notice there's no probable pitcher announced yet for Sunday?), he'd still be under Nats control for 6 more years.

"Actually, San Diego would be a great place for him to start. Big park, weak opposing offense, and San Diego IS a "home" game for the guy from SDSU. A lower-pressure atmosphere might be a good idea."

If he needs a lower-pressure atmosphere for his first start, then he's not ready for the big leagues. Repeat: Strasburg's first big league start will be at Nationals Park, nowhere else. And if it's early June and they stick to his current five day schedule, the only possible day for it is Sunday, June 6th against the Reds. Another rain delay could push it into the June 8-10 Pirates series, though, so I wouldn't call it a lock just yet.

There's a misconception in many of these comments that I hope Adam or Dave or Alexa can lay to rest. As I understand it, he has already delayed his arrival enough (20 days in the minors) to avoid losing him to free agency after 2015. The Super-2 issue is whether he gets arbitration in 2012 or 2013. Even for that, if they send him back to the minors to sit on the bench after he reaches his 150 total innings limit, they pause his arbitration clock. (In other words, it doesn't matter if he spends May or September in the minors for determining Super-2 status.).

So I say, let him start in Harrisburg on Sunday (especially since I have tickets for that game already I approve of that), and then BRING HIM UP! Don't wait until another starter blows up and we hit a losing patch.